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AEA slams NACAA effort to convince states to implement Clean Power Plan

American Energy Alliance President Thomas
Pyle recently criticized the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA)
for a press call that discussed a document encouraging states to implement the
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan.

“The NACAA, which has received millions of
dollars in grants from the EPA, is clearly acting as a proxy for the agency,”
Pyle said. “Following the Supreme Court’s stay, the EPA is barred from
enforcing the regulation, yet groups like NACAA are attempting to mislead
states into implementing it anyway.”

The Supreme Court issued a stay on the
EPA’s Clean Power Plan while the regulation is mired in legal action brought by
some states and industry groups. Until the cases are resolved, implementation of
the plan has been put on hold.

“State leaders have an obligation to
protect their citizens from the EPA’s carbon regulation — a rule that would
significantly raise electricity rates and disproportionately hurt low-income
families,” Pyle said. “Moving forward with implementing the regulation is a
waste of states’ time and resources, as the rule could eventually be thrown
out, or at the very least be significantly changed. State leaders should reject
any calls by the EPA, or its surrogates, to continue working on this legally
dubious regulation.”

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